Protein enriched breakfast is the best way to start your day. Here you’ll use Protein Pancake Mix to make a healthy breakfast bread. You can make it in a pan or as muffins. Enjoy the recipe with different fruits (peaches, bananas, mangos, pineapple blueberries, or cooked apples). Enjoy! NOTE: Adult supervision is mandatory when working …
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Dinner on a Budget: Rigatoni with Bolognese
I love showing kids (and adults) how to make delicious meals on a budget. Growing up in an Italian family, pasta was frequently made with all kinds of different sauces and types of pasta. Rigatoni is a favorite with bolognese (meat sauce). This meal cost me $13 and served six people. Rigatoni = $1 on …
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Firecracker Hot Dog Kabobs
Get our Cookie Kits with everything to make amazing decorated cookies! Hot dogs are always a hit at any party, especially wrapped in Crescent roll dough. Here is a super simple recipe to make hot dog wrapped kabobs. Also known as pigs in a blanket. I love this recipe as you don’t have to fuss …
Mummy & Spider Bites
Let’s have some Halloween food fun making Mummy and Spider hotdogs. Using refrigerated cresent dough, kids will have fun wrapping the hotdogs. You can make mummy or spider hotdogs, or both. Using black or green olives, you make the eyes. You can substitute regular beef hotdogs with chicken, turkey, vegetarian or plant-based hotdogs. You can …
Easy Chicken Pot Pie
There is nothing like a hot chicken pot pie for dinner. There is a reason they call it comfort food. So, bring the family together to learn how to make this homemade classic. We used prepared refrigerated pie crusts. If you want to make your own, there is a good pie crust recipe on this …
Quick & Easy Baked Nachos
FREE eCookbook with 10 Perfect Recipes Tell the kids, “we’re making nachos tonight”. Of course, they will be thrilled. Nachos have so many different flavors and variations. The only standard is the corn chips. From there you can add what your family loves. Nachos are a layer of your favorite tastes, then baked in the …
Easy Caprese Pizza
Do you love a Caprese salad? It’s a popular salad of Italy. Caprese salad is a simple Italian salad, made of sliced fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and sweet basil, seasoned with salt and olive oil, occasionally paired with arugula. What about puting this amazing flavor on a pizza? This is especially fun for a quick appetizer, …
Easy Chicken Dinner
Teaching kids to cook is so important. This recipe shows how to bake to get moist delicious chicken. I call it Blasted Chicken. The reason is the chicken is baked at a high heat right from the start. At 450F the chicken seals in the moisture as it makes a crispy skin on the outside. …
Sweet Potato Cranberry
Fresh sweet potatoes & cranberries! oh la la Make the perfect jolly holiday colorful dish. Pretty simple with sweet potatoes (also known as yams), fresh cranberries, some brown sugar, butter, spice and mini marshmallows. It’s a fun recipe to make with your kids. They follow the printable recipe. You can use frozen cranberries, but make …
Easy Aloha Chicken and Rice
This a dump-and-bake dinner. A great recipe for kids to learn how rice will absorb all the water while baking. You can make it in 10 minutes, then bake for 1 hour and dinner is ready for the entire family. We call it Aloha Chicken and Rice as this is a dish you would see …